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[summerisle]

Pub hits customers with £2-an-hour charge to sit under outside heaters

Bar says it would have been forced to hike drink prices if it did not start outdoor heater charge

www.independent.co.uk

A pub has started charging customers £2 an hour to use their outdoor heaters, saying they were left with no choice because of rising energy costs.

Hydes Bar Norton, in Stockton-on-Tees, installed token metres in their outdoor seating area, with customers now told to pay £1 for 30 minutes.

The bar said if they did not start charging for their outdoor heaters, they would have been forced to increase drink prices.

The pub’s owners said on social media: “Following a review of energy charges, which are now two and a half times what we were paying last year, we have made the decision to install token meters for the outdoor canopy heaters.

“Tokens can be purchased at the bar for £1, which provides 30 minutes.

“The decision was not taken lightly, the only other option being a blanket increase to drinks prices. The heaters will be available all day.

“Despite the bar being almost empty and heated inside, during quiet daytimes we have had people asking for the outdoor heaters to be put on.

<p>Token metres have been installed in their outdoor seating areas </p>
Token metres have been installed in their outdoor seating areas (Google)
“The running costs for these on an average month would exceed £1000, a cost we cannot sustain. Like many hospitality venues, our operating costs have substantially increased over the last 18 months.

“We appreciate that not everyone will agree with this, some will want to have a good moan, but as a small independent business, we have to keep our costs low where we can and account for rising charges.”

The decision has divided customers, with some suggesting that pub-goers wear thermals, while another suggested limiting the venue’s opening hours.

 

[Rita_Poon]

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Pub hits customers with £2-an-hour charge to sit under outside heaters

Bar says it would have been forced to hike drink prices if it did not start outdoor heater charge

www.independent.co.uk

this one?

 

[summerisle]

Pub hits customers with £2-an-hour charge to sit under outside heaters

Bar says it would have been forced to hike drink prices if it did not start outdoor heater charge

www.independent.co.uk

this one?

I've copied the bugger !

 

[Rita_Poon]

It's just lucky you found that coronation street supermarket vid with Vera, that's a pound for pound contender for me.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Hunt predicted to cut taxes and raise the living wage, yet I haven't seen the national uproar that we did when Corbyn suggested we should do the same thing.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Yippee can see the energy companies share holders have eyed up NI cut already.

Energy price cap will rise in January adding pressure on households

A new domestic energy price cap has been announced leading to higher bills for millions.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Littlesue]

Trouble with keep cutting NI means us on low pay don't pay any so can't contribute to our pension. I not paid any tax or NI for 32 years

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Doesn’t having such massive migration cause the cost of living to rise exponentially for everyone else? The infrastructure isn’t there and there will be a strong upward pressure on stuff like housing.

 

[summerisle]

Doesn’t having such massive migration cause the cost of living to rise exponentially for everyone else? The infrastructure isn’t there and there will be a strong upward pressure on stuff like housing.

We know who to blame.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

We know who to blame.

As ever, the safest route is always to blame the Tories. That said, crime spiked everywhere due to Covid lockdowns. They seemed to drive people loopy.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Doesn’t having such massive migration cause the cost of living to rise exponentially for everyone else? The infrastructure isn’t there and there will be a strong upward pressure on stuff like housing.

No, please go and have a read about the windrush generation. The housing problem is a political football that has been used to point score and make monies for vested interests for decades. There's plenty of room for housing, and there's the means to do it. The theory goes there's 1.6 million employment vacancies in the uk, that a labour shortage has been allowed to manifest has put up prices as workers can pick and choose the best there is on offer.
The last time infrastructure was built with an eye on the capabilities for the future was the victorians. britain has sleep walked into the malaise it finds itself in now through stupidity and tacit greed.

 

[summerisle]

As ever, the safest route is always to blame the Tories. That said, crime spiked everywhere due to Covid lockdowns. They seemed to drive people loopy.

Usually, because it's true. Crime didn't 'spike everwhere'.

Crime during the coronavirus pandemic | The University of Manchester

Experts from The University of Manchester and The University of Salford have been investigating how lockdown has affected crime rates in England. Find out more.

www.manchester.ac.uk

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Usually, because it's true. Crime didn't 'spike everwhere'.

Crime during the coronavirus pandemic | The University of Manchester

Experts from The University of Manchester and The University of Salford have been investigating how lockdown has affected crime rates in England. Find out more.

www.manchester.ac.uk

That’s a good point. I was thinking about the spike in domestic violence. That said, lockdowns did have an adverse effect on mental health.

 

[summerisle]

That’s a good point. I was thinking about the spike in domestic violence. That said, lockdowns did have an adverse effect on mental health.

Even at the best of times... lol

 

[COYBL25]

Pub hits customers with £2-an-hour charge to sit under outside heaters

Bar says it would have been forced to hike drink prices if it did not start outdoor heater charge

www.independent.co.uk

A pub has started charging customers £2 an hour to use their outdoor heaters, saying they were left with no choice because of rising energy costs.

Hydes Bar Norton, in Stockton-on-Tees, installed token metres in their outdoor seating area, with customers now told to pay £1 for 30 minutes.

The bar said if they did not start charging for their outdoor heaters, they would have been forced to increase drink prices.

The pub’s owners said on social media: “Following a review of energy charges, which are now two and a half times what we were paying last year, we have made the decision to install token meters for the outdoor canopy heaters.

“Tokens can be purchased at the bar for £1, which provides 30 minutes.

“The decision was not taken lightly, the only other option being a blanket increase to drinks prices. The heaters will be available all day.

“Despite the bar being almost empty and heated inside, during quiet daytimes we have had people asking for the outdoor heaters to be put on.

<p>Token metres have been installed in their outdoor seating areas </p>
Token metres have been installed in their outdoor seating areas (Google)
“The running costs for these on an average month would exceed £1000, a cost we cannot sustain. Like many hospitality venues, our operating costs have substantially increased over the last 18 months.

“We appreciate that not everyone will agree with this, some will want to have a good moan, but as a small independent business, we have to keep our costs low where we can and account for rising charges.”

The decision has divided customers, with some suggesting that pub-goers wear thermals, while another suggested limiting the venue’s opening hours.

Understandable given the way things are tbh.